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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1957
Page
9
Chester, June 5. Parents of John Sutton 32 urged their son to return home as a search began for him after the fatal shooting of Ina Persinger. Persinger’s body was found in her Chester apartment kitchen. Sutton is wanted on a warrant for threatening her with a .22 rifle.
Grand jury action ordered after Shaffer 72, known as Pop, allegedly mistreated a one year old girl at the Fifth Avenue candy store. Sheriff deputies identify him, he waives preliminary hearing, and bond is set at 2500 dollars as he is jailed.
Huntington hosts the 10th annual West Virginia Public Accountants Assn convention with Internal Revenue Service officials L. G. Stanley Riley Van Meter and Layman G. Friedman slated to speak Friday. John B. Fisher of Charleston to moderate a Friday panel after a tax seminar.
Douglas F. Scott, a U S Navy civilian employee from Los Angeles, says his family faces threats to harm his children unless he pays 3 100 000 yen. The messages began May 27 with a phone call, followed by a letter demanding payment and an ad in the Japan Times.
Theodore T. Dorman of the West Virginia Board of Control will address the Exchange Club at noon in the Ruffner Hotel. He will discuss conditions at several state institutions visited recently and the administrative transition that will change his title. Ralph Hargreaves Smith will introduce him.
Five members of a South Carolina family were injured yesterday when their car flipped on the West Virginia Turnpike. S Sgt. Lewis Wilhite, 28, of Shaw Air Force Base, his wife Audery 23, sons Michael 4 and Rickey 9, and daughter Cathy 8 were treated for minor cuts and bruises at Memorial Hospital and released. A sixth son escaped injury as the vehicle rolled onto the pavement while traveling south.
Six year old Marsha Poffenbarger daughter of Charleston lawyer L F Poffenbarger was struck on Fort Hill Drive while visiting Dr John Jarrett's home. She sustained facial and head cuts but was treated and released from Memorial Hospital after emergency care. The vehicle was driven by Dr Thomas Knapp.
The United Appliance and Television Dealers Assn of Charleston will hold a 6:30 p m meeting in the Quarrier Diner Banquet Room. Vice president A W Bernsohn will keynote on how trade associations benefit appliance dealers and distributors. He has past affiliations with RCA and the Allen B DuMont Laboratories.
Music at First Church of Tyler Mount features Toccoa Falls Institute male quartet and brass trio at 8 p.m. Rev. John Klinepeter will speak after the program. Interdenominational Bible school claims the oldest of its kind in the South. DAV Election Set for South Charleston Delegates and alternates to state convention to be elected at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall. Delegates to meet June 14-16 at the Daniel Boone Hotel.
The Cross Lanes News covers a church dinner and program by the Taccoa Falls Quartet at First Baptist Church Big Tyler with Bobby Godfrey aiding. Also notes Mt. Tyler Homemakers Club meeting, Red Cross swimming classes postponed, Methodist Church building committee update, vacations, and Vacation Bible School at First Baptist with theme Missions Throughout the World.
Robert L. Baughan won Pratt mayoralty in a close race defeating Democrat rival Thomas Austin by 124 to 85. A voting error had earlier listed his name as Vaughan in initial returns. Baughan is a Citizens Party candidate with historical ties to a 1802 party foundation.
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